sibling love

I just had to take the time to blog real quick because my kids have been just a real blessing lately. I mean they are alway a blessing but now more than other times I am really noticing. For example at this moment they are in Casey's room playing very nicely with eachother.  We have Veggie Tales Greatest Hits playing for music in the background so every once in a while Casey will come out and do a little dance around the living room then go back in. This morning they got up and we had breakfast with Joe at 6:30 before he had to leave for work. They love having breakfast with him and actually Casey picks out Joe's cereal (it alway has to be whatever she is having) the night before when she goes to bed. After Joe left for work we did some chores. The kids have chore charts with all the things they need to do on them so they set to work. Caden fed the cats and Casey fed the fish they made their beds and got dressed, brushed their teeth and then wanted to go see their grandma so we did. Of course that meant we had to go out to the chickens so out we went where my kids showed what skilled chicken catchers they are and Casey planted a big kiss on one unsuspecting chicken. It is really hot though outside so I made them come inside even though by now it was only 8:15 and we made cupcakes with Grandma then out we went again and they drove the Gator around the yard for a long time prentending to be Mommy and Daddy and I am assuming pretending to find all sorts of snakes and monsters out there because there was a lot of pointing and running back to the gator and screaming with laughter. When we came back inside we had a little cupcake party then back to our house so I could get some stuff done and like I said at the beginning they have been playing nicely sense.

They have been such good helpers and playing so well lately it is amazing. Don't get me wrong they fight like cats and dogs too. Just last night I had to inform them that if they fought at the dinner table they were being excused with out finishing and going to bed  but for the most part the fights don't last because they work it out by themselves and want to get back to playing again. I don't have to get involved in their disagreements usually and I have become less and less needed to keep them entertained. They of course still ask for me to play with them and I love it when they do but I love watching them play so well together it brings back so many memories of Heidi and I growing up. We were eachothers best friends and I want that for my kids too <3

Yummy

Okay this is a silly post but my amazing hubby just brought me home the Mixed Berry Smoothie from McDonalds and frankly it is freakin awesome! YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On another note Joe has decided since he is home early and his summer job bosses have let him use the lift thingy that they have rented he is going to cut down the pine tree in the yard that was hit by lighting last year I am a little nervous about this because it is a very tall tree but he used to work for Davey tree so he knows what he is doing I just don't like having to watch.

House of sickies

Last weekend we worked really hard on Saturday all day and go the chicken coop finished!! Whoo Hoo it is done : ) I will post pics later. We went out at 8 a.m. and came in at 4p.m. finally done : ) Our friend Jon and Jhenna came over for dinner that night and we play farkle which was so much fun I just love hanging out with them and I am so bummed we don't see them more often but I am really glad that we did it this last weekend because as of Sunday durning sunday school exactly halfway through the lesson I got hit with a wicked cold. My nose started to get all stuffed up and my ears hurt and felt like I was hit by a truck (I am sure everyone who has had a cold knows the feeling) Then about oh a quarter of the way through the service I got so tired I had to start chewing gum to stay awake which wsas sad because it was a very good sermon. The rest of the fam stayed healthy till tuesday night when Casey Bug fell victom to the fever and runny nose. Caden got up Wednesday all stuffed up and with a fever so now only Joe is surviving the wicked cold.

On the up side we are now the proud owners of a very adorable calico kitten named Jubilee. She is precious and very sweet. She even lets the kids pick her up which I find pretty impressive because if I was an 8 week old kitten I would not be letting a 2 and 4 year old anywhere near me LOL

Chickens

Our chickens arrived the day after we got back into town from the cruise. They were super cute and they still are but they are growing crazy fast and I am sure the cuteness will be gone quickly as they are a week old now and have feathers, or at least a few feathers and the fluffy sweet things are a thing of the past already.

Now that being said there is a chicken that I am very fond of. It's name is Bobby. I am not sure yet if it is a girl or a boy as it is the exotic one they threw in the batch for fun. Ty named it Bobby that way it fits no matter what and I think it rather fits they little thing. It is the smallest of the chickens and is very cute : )

The kids love the chickens and check on them regularly and have tons of questions about them. Joe was making good progress on the chicken coop till he injured his neck on Sunday so hopefully they will still be in there in plenty of time and out of the garage.

Here are some pictures

This is Bobby the one facing the camera

Cruise

The cruise was awesome! We left on the 19th and were gone for a week and it was very fun and relaxing. Joe and I had an inside cabin, Aunt Janet and Uncle Larry had a room adjoining to Honey and Ty's that had balconies and Mom and Dad's was on the back of the boat on a corner so it had a very large balcony because it wrapped around the side a little which made it big enough for all of us to hangout while we were leaving Miami and other ports :) 

I am pretty sure just about everyones favorite part of the cruise was the food! from the time we stepped on the boat to the time we pretty much got off we enjoyed the non stop food. Joe I believe loved the lobster night the best he actually had 3 lobster dinners that night LOL! I of course loved the dessert the best because I have a HUGE sweet tooth and they had a CHOCOLATE BUFFET!!! Seriously it is a good thing it only happened once because I think I would have died of chocolate over dose if it was more often.

My other favorite thing was the turtle farm we went to. My cousin Ty went to this with us too which made it even more fun but my dad got really sick from the heat (we shopped before we got on the tour bus so thankfully he was able to go back to the boat instead of being sick on the tour) so he missed out that day : ( We got to play with the turtles and feed them and snorkel and all that fun stuff.

The boat was really fun too of course with the shows and we played putt putt, layed out and enjoyed just relaxing and playing games. I kicked some booty at Yahtzee but got mine kicked at Farkle.